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December 16, 2012, 1:00 PM

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has promised in recent months that an option for users to download an archive of all the tweets from their accounts would be available this year. At least for some, this long-awaited feature has arrived …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, PC World, NSpeaks, Gizmodo, The Verge, Mashable!, Scripting News and SlashGear

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

The Thriving Bazaar on Instagram — Instagram, the picture-sharing application that Facebook bought earlier this year, has not yet figured out a way to make money. But some of its users have. — These entrepreneurs have realized that they can piggyback on the popularity of Instagram …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @fionaspruill and @hunterwalk

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Below the Surface — Early data shows that the PC market has not experienced a “pop” from Windows 8. Market watchers have been anticipating this pop since every previous version of Windows has led to a surge in shipments. PC vendors have also been hoping for this to lift their volumes.

More: MacDailyNews and CNET. Tweets: @timcohn

BBC:

Internet porn: Automatic block rejected — Campaigners say it is too easy for children to access explicit adult content — Ministers have rejected plans to automatically block internet access to pornography on all computers, saying the move is not widely supported.

More: The Verge, The Next Web and Neowin

Elizabeth Wasserman / Politico:

Google to tweak practices to end search probe — Federal regulators may end a two-year antitrust probe of Google's search business by letting the company make voluntary changes, such as limiting use of restaurant and travel reviews from other websites and letting search ad campaigns …

More: CNET. Tweets: @mhelft

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google drops a Gmail-shaped bomb on Windows Phone — The ecosystem battle continues — For Windows Phone users, the news out of Google today couldn't be much worse. — The company announced it's removing support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol for new devices from January 30th, 2013.

More: BGR India, The Next Web, ZDNet, Engadget, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, SuperSite for Windows and The Next Web. Tweets: @tomwarren

John Gruber / Macworld:

The unlikely persistence of AppleScript — First, a little history: — Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company's OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody …

More: Daring Fireball and MacStories. Tweets: @lessien

Peter Delevett / Mercury News:

Former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is on the trail to redemption at new startup — Scott Thompson was one of Silicon Valley's luminaries — the highly regarded president of PayPal who ascended to the top spot at Yahoo (YHOO) earlier this year before it all came crashing down.

Thanks:@mercwiretap

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

As Facebook joins the NASDAQ-100, both RIM and Netflix are dropped — Following the news that Facebook joined the NASDAQ-100, an index comprised of the 100 largest non-financial stocks listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market, Netflix and troubled BlackBerry maker RIM have been dropped.

More: NASDAQ.com and Inquirer Business

New York Times:

Microsoft Battles Google by Hiring Political Brawler Mark Penn — SEATTLE — Mark Penn made a name for himself in Washington by bulldozing enemies of the Clintons. Now he spends his days trying to do the same to Google, on behalf of its archrival Microsoft.

More: Neowin and The Verge. Tweets: @akovacs, @fxshaw, @fxshaw, @fxshaw and @fxshaw

Wall Street Journal:

Before Japan Votes, Mum's the Word, Twitterwise — An Old Law Is Interpreted to Ban Digital Electioneering; Scrubbing Websites — TOKYO—Until Dec. 3, Koei Aoto, the Internet guru for Japan's Social Democratic Party, was busy posting information online about candidates for a coming election.

More: Japan Real Time

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Following Adobe user forum breach, hacker claims he has access to some Yahoo servers — An Egyptian hacker who calls himself ViruS_HimA is claiming to have breached Yahoo's security systems following similar attacks on other companies. He allegedly has full access to the servers for at least two of Yahoo's domains.

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